Who Wants My MTV?
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Here’s a quick way to date yourself: do you remember when MTV actually played music? Like, all day? And from different genres?
Boy, are you old.
I was flipping through the channels last night looking for something to watch, and also wanting to see what channels we actually have now. We just switched from Comcast from DirecTV, so now we can actually watch TV when it rains (we’re moving up in the world, apparently). Anyway, I saw MTV3, and was temporarily filled with joy.
See, MTV3 (or MTV Tres), the last time I saw it, reminded me of MTV as it was back in the day. They played music, and a halfway decent variety of it, at that, provided you didn’t mind it in Spanish (which I don’t). You could turn on the TV and be serenaded by the likes of Maná, Gustavo Cerati, Kinky, Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Julieta Venegas, Cafe Tacuba, and untold numbers of others, some of which I’d never heard of… which, let’s face it, is the best reason to listen to the radio or watch MTV in the first place.
But then my enthusiasm vanished like steam from a bathroom mirror. (more…)